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true Japanese scary stories from around the internet.

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This week, we're taking a look at some tales of the supernatural coming back to haunt numerous

people, suspecting or otherwise.

First up, what starts out as a rather familiar urban legend soon takes a potentially

deadly twist. Find out why in Book of Malice. I've loved scary stories ever since I was in elementary school, so I've collected

all sorts of information from various people and things.

When I was in school, I heard a rumor from a friend of a story that I would absolutely regret

if I were to ever hear it.

Well, who knows it? I asked him, and he said that our home-rood teacher would tell me if I asked him.

So I went over to the staff room right away to ask him about it.

At first, my teacher refused to engage and wouldn't tell me the story.

But I pestered him so much that, in the end, he told me he'd give me just a hint, and that was it. Shortly after I transferred to this

school, I was doing some work in the classroom after school, but one of the teachers told me

a story about the library next to the classroom,

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